Information and Communications Policy, National Broadband Plans of OECD countries

About Statistics Publications & Documents Information by Country

• General Information on Broadband and Internet
• Broadband Blueprint
• Australian National Broadband Strategy
• Connect Australia

Austria

• Österreichischer Forschungs- und Technologiebericht
• Sonderrichtlinie AT:net (Austrian Electronic Network)
• IKT Masterplan 2006
• Breitbandinitiative Österreich 2003 / The Austrian Broadband Initiative

• Opinion of the Consultative Committee on Telecommunications of 31/01/2007 How to improve broadband penetration in Belgium?
• Policy document (October 20th, 2006) of the Minister for Economic Affairs
• Policy document (October 13th, 2006) of the Minister for Work - part computerization

• Policy Direction to the CRTC (2006)
• Telecommunications Policy Review Panel Final Report 2006
• Industry Canada Broadband Office and Federal Government Programs
• “Networking the Nation for Broadband Access” Report of the National Broadband Task Force (2001)

Czech Republic

• The National Broadband Access Policy 2005

• IT- and Telecommunications Policy Report 2007 with description of the Danish broadband strategy and broadband related strategies
• IT and Telecommunications Policy Report, 2006
• The Danish Approach

• Broadband for all policy
• Communication - Bridging the Broadband Gap
• i2010– A European Information Society for growth and employment

• National broadband strategy. Final report 2007
• A Renewing, Human-Centric and Competitive Finland, The National Knowledge Society Strategy 2007-2015

France

• Plan d'actions et Forum du très haut débit
• Plan pour une République numérique dans la société de l’information

• Rahmenbedingungen für eine Breitbandoffensive in Deutschland
• German 'broadband atlas' (Broadband supply in Germany), incl. link to some studies
• Broadband Roadshow
• 'German Broadband Initiative'
• Initiative D21

Greece

• The Plan for the Development of Broadband Services until 2008

• National Broadband Strategy

• The policy of the Government of Iceland on the Information Society 2004-2007

Ireland

• National Broadband Scheme
• The Internet and Broadband Experience for Business Users
• Irish Communications Market: Quarterly Key Data – March 2007
• Next Generation Networks Forum 2007
• Ireland Broadband Performance Review

Italy

• Interministerial Committee on Broadband development
• Infratel, addressing the infrastructural digitral divide in remote and rural areas
• Innovazione Italia, addressing the social-economic digital divide
• Wi-max for broadband in rural areas
• Osservatorio Banda Larga

• u-Japan policy
• New IT Reform Strategy
• The Next-Generation Broadband Strategy 2010 (in Japanese only)
• White Paper - Information and Communications in Japan 2006

• Broadband IT Korea Vision 2007
• IT 839 strategy
• 2006 Informatization white paper (particularly uKorea Master Plan on page 13)

• The Luxembourg media and communications policy (includes regular Broadband penetration follow-up)
• La pénétration des technologies de l’information au Luxembourg

• Better Performance with ICT: Update of the ICT Agenda of the Netherlands 2005 – 2006, 2005
• Broadband and Grids Technology in the Netherlands

New Zealand

• NZ Telecommunications Stocktake Cabinet Paper
• Local Loop Unbundling
• NZ’s Digital Strategy
• Telecom Corporation of New Zealand Limited Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 2006

Norway

• Report about the development of broadband in the Nordic countries
• An Information Society for All – A Report to the Norwegian Parliament
• Homepage of the Broadband Programme Høykom
• Theme page on ICT policy

• Draft of broadband strategy for public services for 2007-2013 (Polish only)
• Polish Internet Report 2006 (Polish only)
• Polish fixed access market to the Internet (Polish only)
• Informatization Strategy of Poland until 2013 (Polish only)

Portugal

• Technological Plan: A national strategy for growth and competitiveness based on knowledge, technology and innovation
• Connecting Portugal: An action plan, for the Information Society, included in Technological Plan

• Ingenio 2010
• Avanza Plan
• National Program of broadband infrastructures deployment in rural and isolated areas

Sweden

• Policy for the IT society - Recommendations from the members of the IT Policy Strategy Group
• From an IT policy for Society to a Policy for the Information Society, 2005
• Broadband for growth, innovation and competitiveness
• Proposed Broadband Strategy for Sweden

Switzerland

• La stratégie du Conseil fédéral pour une société de l’information en Suisse
• Le Rapport 2007 du Comité interdépartemental chargé de mettre en oeuvre la stratégie du Conseil fédéral pour une société de l'information

• Broadband Strategy
• Information Society Strategy and its Action Plan

• The Government’s broadband policy
• UK Broadband Policy

United States

• White House document, New Generation of American Innovation (Promoting Innovation and Economic Security through Broadband Technology), April 2004.